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10 Sep 2012, 9:51 am

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That would be difficult, on account of the fact that a rat's brain is much smaller than that of a human's. You'd have to find a way to make the neurons substantially smaller so you could fit more of them into a given volume.


Maybe they could make a rat with a humans head.



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10 Sep 2012, 2:11 pm

Wouldn't that just make the size issues worse? I mean I can't imagine a tiny rat body dragging a full-sized human head around would work out well in any sense except comedically.



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10 Sep 2012, 3:54 pm

Yeah it would look funny. Anyway some rats are very big.

I think the notion I have is that with genetic anything would be possible. But maybe not everything would feasible or desireable, or would work out well.



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15 Sep 2012, 11:40 am

Robdemanc wrote:
Arcanyn wrote:
That would be difficult, on account of the fact that a rat's brain is much smaller than that of a human's. You'd have to find a way to make the neurons substantially smaller so you could fit more of them into a given volume.


Maybe they could make a rat with a humans head.


Actually, the thing that matters is the ratio between the size of the rest of the body and the size of the brain.


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17 Sep 2012, 6:27 am

I don't know much on biology or genetics at all, all I know is just from my general science course I do at school. But I remember ever since I was 6 I have always wanted to have wings. I remember every day after school and when ever I could I would look into information on the internet about genetic engineering. Even now I would still love that so so much, I guess as I grew up I saw how far out of my reach it was and never tried to pursue that dream :P

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17 Sep 2012, 2:22 pm

That is cool! I would love wings too. I suppose it may be possible but I think they would also have to give big chest muscles and perhaps a more efficient heart to gather the energy to lift off the ground.



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17 Sep 2012, 4:12 pm

If you were to work on it you'll probably need more than one lifetime of research to change genetic expression and implement all that in a human. Because a human's genetic data is much more complicated than a rat's or a fruit fly's.